Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peacetime patterns: offers, counteroffers, the appearance (and failure) of a Government conciliator, the transfer of New York negotiations to Washington. John Lewis stood fast: he wanted to crack the Little Steel wage formula with a $2-a-day raise for his men and to torpedo WLB (as he had sunk its predecessor, the National Defense Mediation Board). But what he was really after was a showdown with the President. John Lewis is not at all afraid of the Champ; the Champ, after years of trial bouts, is not so keen for the battle...
...monstrous wooden glider, with a wing span of 180 feet. Six French Gnôme-Rhône engines were added to make a plane that would carry 120 fully equipped soldiers or 20,000 Ib. of freight 450 miles at 140 miles an hour. It has ten half-sunk wheels well forward to prevent nosing over in rough landings, and the front of its fuselage can let down to take in trucks and light tanks. It looks like a boxcar that insists on flying...
...Atlantic between the U.S. and Eng land. In midocean, beyond the zone of air protection from Britain, the convoys suffered (losses: unannounced). When the battle moved within range of the four-motored Liberators and Sunderlands of Britain's Coastal Command, the Nazi wolves paid: five were probably sunk, many others were damaged...
Brazil has begun to feel that she is in the war but not of it. When Aviation Minister Joaquim Pedro Salgado Jr. announced last week that the Brazilian Air Force had sunk its seventh U-boat, he symbolized Brazil's feeling. He said, by way of explanation for not waiting the customary 30 days to announce the sinking: "It is a great satisfaction to get part of our revenge at the scene of the brutal attacks which provoked a bitter hatred of the Axis throughout Brazil...
Brazilians grow restive as they watch their ships being sunk and see their troops deployed for a coastal defense which, since the Allied invasion of North Africa, seems not very urgent. They want to send troops abroad. Recently General Manuel Rabello was permitted to say, and Brazilian papers were permitted to make much of his saying: "Soldiers, sailors and aviators of Brazil will have to kill and die for the flag of their country and for the United Nations' cause as English, Russians, Americans and Chinese have been dying...